dude not the "outskirts" pretty much central LA county

Yet no human should have that amount of money when people are dying on the streets.

@@PROVOCATEURSK I think all these publicly funded stadiums and venues should have an instant 75% off for the domestic tax payers who live in that city and or state. however, anyone out of state flying in should receive the regular pricing instead

Yeah, taking peoples' homes through eminent domain was definitely worth it

Do you say the same about libraries and museums? I find it hilarious that people’s communism extends only to what they value.

@@0fficialdregsyour property taxes are lower because of the venues. Substantially.

Yeah, like the recent Raiders bolted to LV and the A’s trying to get to LV also.

@@tommydong8070 The A's move to Vegas may be in jeopardy. KZfaqr 'Depressed Ginger' just did a video on this a few days ago.

You mean the same thing the government does 😂

the outdoor court is awesome!

It’s an investment. The tax payers pay and then it helps boost the economy in the city.

…and affordable housing.

This is privately funded

Oh stop being a burden and get a job. How do you think the United States ended up with the most advanced healthcare and medical industry civilization has ever seen. We have the finest and smartest doctors humanity can produce alongside with the most innovative and technologically advanced care on the planet. No one comes close. I get it this is the internet where self loathing for attention of others is some people favorite past time but get a grip. We cure diseases of every kind no one is able to do because we innovate. We are what makes modern civilization possible and guess what none of that is cheap. Get a reality check first.

Then get a job.

This is privately funded. As it should be.

thanks for this comment since the video never answered the dam tittle.

damnnnn

Talk about FLEX.

​@@austin_andradeHe mentions the costs starting here 7:53. It's also mentioned in the description.

And the Forum used to be the Lakers home arena back in the day and now it belongs to the Clippers Owner 😅

LOL

Clippers should've gone back to San Diego. Lakers will always be LA's team. A shiny new arena isn't going to change that

@@Utonian21nobody cares old man take your meds

​@@Utonian21Your ego is showing. Might want to put it away.

@@EbagsGalore huh?

They'll fill it up

Or the arena where Aris plays their basketball

We dont care about soccer shut your mouth

​@KingLarbear they can fill it up 5 times over and it would still be DEAD the atmosphere is nothing like Europe and never will be.

​​@@serbianwarrior101it's NBA, Americans are passionate to it the same way Europeans are to football. Especially when the team is famous like Lakers

Hey that stadium was expensive do you think they can afford good players

I don’t get it…..

@@jdos5643 sorry bad English

The curse is real 😂

That’s why they removed that clip. lol.

Yeah crazy that B1M just spits that as a fact. Even the carbon footprint of producing the parts will not be neutralized before it is it time to build a new stadium.

You may or may not be right. But give the guy credit for at least make an effort.

@@sikchopper3783 he's hardly making an effort by throwing money at stuff and taking the credit for it

@@joedowning2428 okay 👍

@@sikchopper3783what a sad reality to reside in. You give flowers for accomplishments, not simply showing up. Effort isn’t enough and sometimes people’s best isn’t good enough.

I’m sure he’s gonna be okay. He seems to be enthusiastic for all the things.

@@nadionmediagroupI'm gay too

😅😅

So the stadium is gay

La needs more skyscrapers. Downtown doesn’t have much growth. There’s cities outside that are much bigger. Seattle for example even Vancouver. The LA skyline is the same.

@@jdos5643 I totally agree! Onni group is putting up a 54 story one now with a 70 story one on the way but I think the Ocean Plaza fiasco and high ULA tax rates have scared a lot of developers sadly.

@@jdos5643why does LA need more skyscrapers? Just cause Seattle has more? Just lol.

@@jdos5643 You're obviously someone under the age of 30. LA skyline in 2005 to now is unrecognizable. They've built about 20 skyscrapers in the past decade

@@fantasyEXX it looks the same still. Compare LA to say Seattle. Notice which is looks bigger. More widespread.

Yeah, more like carbon neutral, and even that is dubious. If anything, they bought credits for trees that were already scheduled to be planted so they could claim offsets for things like truck exhaust and concrete.

Buying carbon indulgences from the climate Pope will do that.

@@texaswunderkind "the arena". Not trucks. "The arena". Once it is built.

The whole carbon thing is bollocks. In Australia we've had our coolest summer for ages, and hasn't California had record snowfalls this year? What a joke

It’s all BS

Exactly. People sitting high on top spending money to watch an event on a big screen next to annoying people.

@@tommydong8070 the alternative is to watch the event through a telescope or have 90% less seating. Yes being sideline level is amazing but theres only so much sideline and eventually it gets to the point you can just pay less and go for the atmosphere, not smelling the grass etc or watch it from home on a much worse sound system/tv

That's what people do when they have social skills. They like to be around other people. It's obviously not for everyone. Don't get angry at the people going to a party you didn't want to be at. That is on you, not them.

Relax, it’s good for people with bad eye sight ya big ding dongs

Something called atmosphere

Except he isn't living in a van down by the river.

He’s a legitimate genius. He had to be to be able to deal with the Microsoft godfathers Bill Gates & Paul Allen. The fact he’s almost as wealthy as Gates is incredible even if Gates has given away most of his wealth already.

your mom is cold asf lol!!

Why? It's not that bad.

Metro Manila is over 15 Million

Yup, the first underground metro in The Philippines. Worthy of a video!

If you want to see the game, pay more for better seats. Ballmer didn't invent the fact that things are smaller when they are farther away.

@@texaswunderkind OK, I rephrase. Upper levels are a giant sports bar. The bigger the stadium, the smaller the live players seem. Ballmer made a giant stadium.

I would rather pay $50 and watch high up in the stadium with a TV there heating the lives sounds and action. Then sit at home or in a bar tbh. You get what you pay for...

@@mysteryhombre81so you’d rather watch the game high up, then watch it at home or in a bar? Why not just watch it in one place instead? Weird.

​@@domfazool8326Why not go to a game and see how you then feel after. Sometimes home / bar is the way go. But occasionally being at a game is great. Even with a bad view, its about the atmosphere.

That's why they accurately said that it will be "carbon free from day one". Gotta love technicality in marketing.

​@@rmmvwisn't day 1 technically when they broke ground and not the day the doors open

@@sweez_136 you're not wrong. Day 1 could also imply the first day of operations.

breathing 😢

Sounds like EVs

I don’t get it….

PTFE is toxic to birds. Proof that environmentalists don’t care about ecology.

I don’t get it….

@@jdos5643 my bad i confused PTFEs with PFAs 🤦🏽‍♂️ sorry about that

Greenwashing at it's finest, the construction materials (concrete, metals, etc...) alone must have the same carbon footprint than a small country....

​@@manu.yt25 Yeah. It's all BS and just a tax write-off. The best reduction of a carbon footprint is NOT building it all

Talk about reaching for criticism. "Carbon free Running….. an the building hahaha", way to be an adult writing like a 13 year old throwing a tantrum online.

@@saksit247 im so sorry. Did I trigger you. English is not my native language. Can write and talk in a 2nd language? Where are you from? I’m 12 years old 13 is a compliment- thanks

@@diefachfrau no. I don't get triggered. I get irritated once in a while. English isn't my native language either. If you are 12 then you should be studying and not spend so much time in front of a screen.

There's a rock close by if you fancy it!😂

That's infrastructure. I give him credit for the land, the building....he's done way better than many of the other "Welfare Queen" owners in every professional sport. Look at Buffalo, Nashville, etc......

dude, he got govt in his pocket by showing his fat rack of cash.

Ballmer is probably now trying to convince Elon Musk to service it with a hyperloop tesla tunnel 😂😂

The way cities always approve these things: kickbacks.

Well at least it'll employee a couple thousand people from the local area which is big

residents of the city? LA, not wichita, kansas dude

Bloomburg promised 12years in office. Next mayor 8 years now Adam's 2nd term mayor has done zip. Adam's defunded education to give to billionair developers

They don’t because i live in the area and can tell you there’s no more affordable housing, the community benefits only benefit the name brand chain companies and the occasional local restaurant/store that already had major local support before both the Sofi Stadium and this new Intuit Dome. the carbon offsets are A JOKE, because the amount of traffic the Sofi and Forum already cause is outrageous and definitely not good for the environment. They expect a 60K stadium to accommodate people by “public transport” but the area has been mainly residential forever so parking and cars needed g to get tot he stadium are ridiculous. so there’s really no benefit to the community but all the benefit to the owners

Cross-cultural all close up Cross-cultural How about the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, and other publications? They've all documented Steve Ballmer's philanthropy. It's all on the Internet for you to check. As Forbes puts it, is Ballmer setting a standard for billionaires? Google "Ballmer Group". It's the website for Steve and Connie Ballmer's Foundation. No glitz, no glamour, each year, Ballmer and his wife, without fanfare donate hundreds of millions. Last year, it was over $800 million. All the dollar amounts and organizations are listed for you or anyone else to investigate.

Well it's a construction chanel why follow up when it not the main content

What do you think?

California is the most expensive state because it offers a lot.

i think that's why him giving 100m to local housing stuff sounds amazing but is so so so so tiny in this great but expensive city

The evil rich are out of their minds, lying, cheating and scamming the working class.

Exactly. Carbon neutral, maybe, but not carbon free. And that's not counting the emissions from the thousands of fans driving to the arena because they didn't integrate the nearby light rail.

I can see the electricity is uses being zero carbon, but the footprint of the building and everything in it, plus the travel for everyone driving in one of the world's worst cities for public transport, mean it's a bit of a bold claim. Still, better than doing nothing like most sports.

@@gordon1545 "the arena". They cannot control how people get there. "The arena".

@@gordon1545it’s ALREADY horrible since Sofi was built, traffic has increased drastically since Inglewood has been a predominantly Residential part of LA county. rent has increased, traffic has increased, pollution in the area has had to increase due to the increase amount of people coming to the area compared to before 2020, and now with the addition of this Intuit Dome and the resurgence of the Forum, this main section of Inglewood is going to be so congested and overrun with expensive apartments and stores it will make it inhabitable for residents who have lived here forever i would just is because my rent personally increased by $600 as soon as Sofi was opened

That's true, but that's the way they build things now. Why have a large building that sit's empty most of the time when the site can be used to generate revenue on a daily basis?

They have to make back their money somehow

@@John_Fugazzi I don’t mind that and I get it, but it’s almost misleading to call it a stadium. It’s also a stadium.

Why what are they selling?

Yes have you seen the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers filling up their barns when their teams are on the road? They all gather to watch on screen... Its not what it's about... Its atmosphere

And get aurally assaulted by shitty music, advertisements, and shouting PA announcers.

Clippers tickets are like $10

Dude has never been to a clipper game. Upper level tickets are cheap. $10 to $40 depending on the opponent. I've found lower level seats for as low as $20 when the clips sucked. Even this past year got to see the Twolves in the lower level for $40

Balmer's been one of the more colorful rich guys in the LA scene and it's been good he pretty enthusiastic/investing & committed in the local areas--that's a good thing compared to others, but we're getting way too many stadiums vs housing in LA.

yeh i think something missed in this is staples center has the Kings, Sparks, Lakers aaand all the concerts

Gangbangers are gone. They can't afford the rent

LA is supposed to be a giant suburb

SoFi cost way more to build, my guy. Almost THREE times as much at $5.5 Billion.

bribes etc. no one outside really knows how much it really cost

It’s just a parking lot built across the street with a tunnel bridge. They just finished a monorail from other lots that stops 1/5 of a mile away. There’s still 5k parking spots at The Forum, 40k at Sofi, and 5k at Hollywood park. They all share that block, plus all the stores, and hotels sell their spots for like 100-500$. Parking is expensive and a bitch but there’s more than enough.

Not every single person shows up in their own car completely alone to games

Once completed it will be.

@@jdos5643 Nothing that gets constructed, especially with concrete, steel and glass, can ever be carbon free. The only way to reduce impact is to build less, build smaller or with new materials and techniques with a much lower environmental footprint. Just because you have a bunch of solar panels and batteries does not mean you are carbon free. Even the production of solar panels and batteries is not carbon free. Everything has a carbon footprint. Document yourself (if you are interested at all).

@@lorenzo3987 but once the building is completed it no longer creates a footprint no? It’s only during the construction.

@@jdos5643 To produce anything small or huge you need the raw materials to be excavated, transported and processed multiple times. That is before having started to construct anything. Then you pollute again to construct and again to use the building, especially because there is zero plan for public transport connections. So the carbon footprint of something like this is what a small country might produce in a whole year. At this point the pollution is done and irreversible. Producing your own electricity isn't going to magically erase the footprint of this or any building (from the beginning of the planning process till its end life). You're only making the building self-sufficient energetically speaking. I frankly doubt the claims of its energy-efficiency, looks like a nightmare to cool down and is a heat magnifier with all that glass (surrounding temperature outdoor will increase). This thing you can only offset by planting a million tree and restore one or more ecosystems and their biodiversity. Anything else is just greenwashing at its finest. In short, the best way to avoid a massive carbon footprint is to avoid building anything new if it isn't absolutely necessary, then to build something with low impact systems or to build with a serious offset plan. There are mega-projects that despite their carbon footprint can reduce, mid to long-term, the carbon footprint of something else, say a train bridge or tunnel connecting two islands where the car and marine traffic is so high to justify the project. This vanity project ain't it, solar panels or not. As I said, ridiculous.

@@jdos5643 To produce anything big or small you need the raw materials to be excavated, transported and processed multiple times. Even the R&D process is part of the carbon footprint of anything. So, you already pollute before construction, then you pollute during construction and you pollute again after construction until the end of life of the building. Factor in this has zero public transport connection (it is LA after all), so more car traffic thus pollution along with the viability issues. Being self-sufficient energetically has zero to do with the carbon footprint of building something, even more so since this thing is not an energy-efficient type of building. Massive spaces with openings everywhere are hard to keep in constant temperature, which you need for indoor sports. Glass on the outside is a heat magnifier so you're increasing the air temperature of the surrounding area. No amount of solar panels or recycling (all great) will make this carbon free. All you can do, after having polluted for such a vanity project, is to have a serious offset plan to plant a million native trees and restore one or more ecosystems to increase biodiversity. That is how you can begin to offset the damage you've done. It takes decades for tress to offset what one building has done. But we don't just build one at a time, do we? The ideal scenario would be to stop building stupid stuff. There is, of course, an argument for stadiums or mega-projects. If you renovate a pre-existing stadium or build it anew with low impact techniques and materials that's much better than concrete, steel and glass. You could also build a train bridge or tunnel to reduce mid to long-term the carbon footprint of a crazy hectic wheeled and maritime transport route between say two islands. This is just lazy, damaging architecture which can't be passed for anything green. As I said, ridiculous.

Yeah that is definitely a 'buzz word' that's way too overused. I imagine the spectator will be paying a carbon tax though!

I don't think Ballmer's wealth or power extends to building a spur off the C or K line.

@@Croz89 Well just a thought. Could of use that land for additional revenue or something. like residential, a small commercial center, restaurants, etc.

​@Croz89 I bet it does. Ballmer is RICH rich.

@@Croz89 def does, bro got 120b for doing nothing.

@@0fficialdregsoh I bet they charge for parking.

Enough parking? North America needs to be educated on the evils of carpitalism. Drivers killed more people than the austrian painter.

What it needs is transit to reach it, less car dependant is a good thing.

i mean getting everyone there in a car really negates any fake or not fake carbon neutralism

How come if he’s 100 billion dollar rich and the project cost him 2 billion why the guy said he may have enough money to get his money back? 2 billion out of 100 billion is nothing.

Ballmer doesn't own the rams

If I remember right, Seattle kept the name rights to the SuperSonics so I imagine any team heading there gets renamed

@@ambientcyan Clipper is a rather nautical term for a type of storm, which would play off (looks at Wikipedia) their WNBA team. I’m in the boat that the name ain’t broke in this case-just about any other probably need to be changed

Palmer tried to buy Sacramento kings and move it to Seattle. NBA didn’t allow it. So he bought the clippers instead. He wanted to own a franchise in LA

I've never figured out why giant venues next to highways don't offer bus service

there is gonna be automated train that will connect the Metro line to the Kia Forum. SoFi Stadium and the Los Angeles Clippers’ new arena . It will also be able to carry an estimated 11,000 rides per hour. Also, there’s a pedestrian bridge from the West Garage allows for easy walking access to the arena. Accessibility is something that was already thought about before building this arena.

It’s across the street from SoFi and the Forum. Inglewood has been hosting this many people for years! as Chick would say “17,505!”

Why would that be? Because the government doesn’t take every last dime from companies and waste it on BS? It’s like you think individuals and companies aren’t entitled to have property and only the government has an entitlement to that money. Sports sponsorships are advertising. Advertising is a business expense. Business expenses are deductible. That’s how accounting and taxes work.

I guess they will be car pooling to games, just like LA residents do for work

And you work for him?

Chat GPT ahh comment

1) this wont do shit for fans other than push the poorer fans away from the area, 100m in housing benefits is basically nothing. 2) LA doesn't have clippers fans, just people who like basketball and are willing to pay to see it anywhere.

​@@ry_an.Yeah the comment of OP sounds like chatgpt summarized the video lmao

They don't have the slave labour of the Middle East ?

Yup, some of the best structural engineering in the world will cost you a premium 🤷‍♂️.

I don’t get it…..

@@jdos5643 a normal staidium has between 40 to 50 toilets

@@orlandomaldonado8890 oh. But he said that way there won’t be lines to the bathroom. Especially the Women’s bathroom since women take longer to go.

Even if he had spent twice as much on the stadium he still would have billions that he could give to those in need, but won't.

With one billion, you can't do anything in LA. The city is spending billions every year just for tents.

How much for graft?

I don’t get it….

nothing. its an eyesore

@bobbowie9350 wow, we're better off with crypto or in that case Staples Center

Why are you blaming Ballmer for the crap job LA and CA politicians do?

How about use the hundreds of billions our government gives to other countries? Not a fan of this nba owner but he can do what he wants with his money.